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jmak

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Registered: 2008-12-21

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[SOLVED]Easy question

Hello,

Could anyone tell me what pacman command writes out the names of  the available upgrades. I would like to know what packages I am upgrading. The pacman -Su doesn't list the names of the packages it is just updating them all.

Thank a lot,
jmak

Last edited by jmak (2009-08-22 19:59:32)

loafer

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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Re: [SOLVED]Easy question

The wiki:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman

or man pacman

will tell you.

you can also look in /var/log/pacman.log

Last edited by loafer (2009-08-22 19:12:55)

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jmak

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Registered: 2008-12-21

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Re: [SOLVED]Easy question

Thanks the link.

The manpage says: -u, --upgrades Lists all packages that are out of date on the local system.

But when query I get this error message:

bash-4.0# pacman --upgrades
error: no operation specified (use -h for help)

What additional operation should I specify here?

jmak

Last edited by jmak (2009-08-22 19:41:22)

Acecero

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Registered: 2008-06-21

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Re: [SOLVED]Easy question

oh my bad,

you use should use pacman -Qu

Last edited by Acecero (2009-08-22 19:47:43)

jmak

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Registered: 2008-12-21

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Re: [SOLVED]Easy question

Thanks a lot, this is what I was looking for.

In the manpage explanation it is not evident that the Q should be used  before the u, at least, for those not yet familiar with the commands.

jmak